"It was just something that that the kids say to keep the...Boogeyman away."

I don't have a lot to say about this, so I'll keep it short.

Where the original Nightmare on Elm Street thrived with original ideas and innovation (especially considering the demanding effects on the strained budget), the second sequel, Dream Warriors, is something different altogether. I've never been a huge fan of A Nightmare on Elm Street (in fact, this is the first time I've watched a…

Considered the best of the "Nightmare" sequels, and I liked it much more than I thought I would. Very creative in the special effects, and they made good use of CGI for the day, except that the skeleton sequence looked cheesy. All in all a fun watch, with the added bonus of a seriously messed up but still lovely Patricia Arquette.

While perhaps arguably not the best of the Nightmare franchise, I would content that this is the most technically brilliant, visually interesting and genuinely terrifying of the series that I have seen to date.

The film brings back original cast, is set in an institution and really explores some of the creativity and lucidity that comes with dreaming that continues through for the remainder of the franchise. While not perfect, volume three for Freddy is franchise defining - both for better, and worse.

I hope I have the balls to take on Freddy Kruger armed with nothing but a mohawk and two tiny knives.

"In my dreams, I can do flips!" "THAT DOES JACK SHIT FOR US, KRISTEN."

How the fuck do you explain how a short ass girl puts her head through a tv that bolted 7 feet up the wall with nothing around to stand on? She was so suicidal her grief allowed her to teleport her face into a TV?

I'm pretty sure "bury him in hallowed ground" is more complicated than rob a church, sprinkle booze tainted holy water and then peace out.

It tries really, really hard to be humane. That's not a genre/franchise contradiction--it gets at least some mileage out of its depiction of mental stresses and illnesses; a kid's (unrealized?) desire to feel wanted, more powerful. That was a much-needed pivot after the awful "morality" scolding of Part 2. But this is also the entry that would put Freddy at an awkward crossroads between perverse cruelty and the quip-worthy pranks that would eventually consume his public image. So whatever sympathy…